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2 servers and 4 clients (2 XP, 1 Vista, 1 Ubuntu) upgraded to 8.5.1:






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I was very jealous of Chris Linfoot in the beginning of the month, when he was selected as a potential candidate for Emerald Who's Who for Executives and Professionals. Well, now I believe Chris will be jealous of me instead.




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I found this on the developerWorks Notes/Domino 6 and 7 forum, put there by Doug Finner:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedweb/18fb3f7aa3bafea88525757b0069239b?OpenDocument
http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174.html

We called it the Rubber Duck method of debugging. It goes like this:

1) Beg, borrow, steal, buy, fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck (bathtub variety)
2) Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it, if that's all right.
3) Explain to the duck what you code is supposed to do, and then go into detail and explain things line by line
4) At some point you will tell the duck what you are doing next and then realise that that is not in fact what you are actually doing. The duck will sit there serenely, happy in the knowledge that it has helped you on your way.

Works every time. Actually, if you don't have a rubber duck you could at a pinch ask a fellow programmer or engineer to sit in.

Andy (original poster)



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Test 4 involves a tabbed table, and a collapsible section. As usual, I'm using ugly colors to distinguish between different table cells. This time I wanted to see the difference between the Domino generated HTML, and the iFidelity generated HTML, so I tried it both ways.

My environment is still Lotus Domino 8.5, with Lotus Notes 8.5, and the mails are sent to my Google mail account, which is set to forward all mail to my Notes mail. This is tested with iFidelity beta 1c.




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Again, I only tested iFidelity converting the mail to HTML. I know, I've already done the table thing, but what I'm testing this time is the Swedish character set. The table is just there to put the text in, with some horrible colors. This time, I really expected problems, but didn't find any this time either. The text I used is just a nonsense text I found on the 'net.

Notes, original mail


Google mail


Notes, via Google mail



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This time, I only did the test with iFidelity converting the mail to HTML. I thought I'd try a different table, with colors and fonts this time. I did expect some problem, but I didn't find any. I actually did this test a couple of days ago, but haven't had time to finish the posting.

Notes, original mail


Google mail


Notes, via Google mail



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I've volunteered to beta test the new iFidelity from Geniisoft. It's really a fantastic product, and it shows all too well how much IBM is NOT doing with Notes and Domino.

I did a simple test before and after installation of the product. I created a mail with a table, and sent it to my GMail account, which is set to forward all mail to my Notes mail. My environment is Lotus Domino 8.5, with Lotus Notes 8.5.




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Notes and Domino 8.5 is currently available on Passport Advantage. I'm currently downloading...


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So this is the new year? So far, it looks pretty much like the old year. Hopefully, it will be a better one, though.

So what happened last year?
The biggest thing for me was that I quit smoking. More important than that, though, is that I'm still not smoking! I don't even have a need for nicotine any longer. I was doing the nicotine chewing gums, but just lost my craving for nicotine a couple of months ago. I still feel that it would be nice to have a smoke from time to time, but it's very easily controllable. I'm still motivated, and having come this far, I definitely don't want to give up now. Today is non-smoking day 168.

There was a lot more that happened last year, but that's history now. Let's keep the focus on what we're going to do in 2009.



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